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Spinoza: Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. He is considered one of the figures of the Enlightenment. Major works are Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (1677), A Political Treatise (1677), On the Improvement of the Understanding (1662), Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being (1662), Theological-Political Treatise (1670). See also Enlightenment, Ethics, Theology._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Otfried Höffe on Spinoza - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 238 Spinoza/Höffe: If one pays attention to the first reactions, one must consider Spinoza's advocacy for freedom a failure. Höffe I 239 The author is even accused of the greatest spiritual crime of the time: atheism. "Consequently", its dissemination is (...) prohibited. LeibnizVsSpinoza: Even the "prince of the Enlightenment", Leibniz, in a letter to the law teacher and philosopher Christian Thomasius, considers the book to be "unbearably free-thinking", but before he knows who the author is. After-effect/History of Effects: Beginning with Lessing, then Herder, Goethe and Mendelssohn, German authors appreciate Spinoza, but will base their work primarily, often even exclusively, on ethics. Both Kant and German idealism deal intensively with Spinoza. The high esteem with which the post-idealists Schopenhauer and Nietzsche regarded Spinoza continues among the great German sociologists at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) and Georg Simmel (1858-1918), as well as Werner Sombart (1863-1941). Cf. entries for >Spinoza._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |